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ager of the West Michigan Development Bureau. The addresses so fai- 

 as the manuscripts have been furnished, will be printed in the report. 

 A Women's Congress was held on Thursday and Friday aftei'noons 

 and among the sjieakers were IVfrs. H. H. Fnlcher, St. Louis nnd Miss Ida 

 L. Chittenden, Lansing. 



EXHIBITS. 



More than usual attention was paid to the securing and installation 

 of exhibits. The large show room used by the farm mechanics depart- 

 ment v>as secured for an exhibit of spraying machinery. The Associa- 

 tion of Manufacturers of Spraying Machinery and Supplies aided ma- 

 terially in obtaining and advertising this exhibit. It Avas participated 

 in by all of the leading manufacturers of power spraying machinery 

 located in Michigan as well as several from other states; and,, as many 

 of them exhibited two or three j»ower outfits, the showing was not 

 only very large but quite com])lete and instructive. Among those 

 jiarticipating were: The Air Cooled Engine Company, Lansing; Brown- 

 Bair Motor Company, Grand Ledge; Champion ]\Ifg. Company, Pontiac; 

 Beck Motor Company, Lansing; M. D. Buskirk, Paw Paw; Fairbanks, 

 Morse & Co., Chicago; Goulds' Force Pump Co., Seneca Falls, N. Y. ; 

 Hardie Mfg. Co., Hudson, Mich.; E. C. Brown & Co., Rochester, N. Y. ; 

 Hildreth Mfg. Co., Lansing; International Harvester Co., Chicago; 

 Xew-Way IMotor Co., I^ansing. 



In the wiij of spraying supplies the only exhibitors were, Dow 

 Chemical Co., Midland, and the Devoe & Raynolds Co., Chicago, E. M. 

 Hunt, Lansing, had a very .complete exhibit of bee-keepers' supplies. 



One of the most interesting exhibits was made by the West Mich- 

 igan Development Bureau. This included some fifty boxes of apples 

 grown in Michigan in 1010. They not only showed what can be done 

 in ^Michigan in the way of apple growing when orchards are given 

 proper attention as in size and color they were fully equal to the prod- 

 uct of any other part of the country and far surpassed most other apples 

 in flavor and aroma but they demonstrated the superior keeping quali- 

 ties of Michigan apples as this same fruit had been shown in a hot 

 room for two weeks at the Chicago Land Show and for shorter periods 

 at one or two other meetings and were still firm and with little change 

 in color. Exhibits of fruits ])reserved in liquids were also made showing 

 the adaptation of northwestern Michigan to the growing of peaches, 

 plums, cherries and other summer fruits. 



The Horticultural Department of the Experiment Station had a very 

 interesting exhibit of apples showing the comparative results obtained 

 from spraying with Bordeaux mixture and lime sulphur solution. Not 

 only were the fruits sprayed with lime and sulphur much freer from 

 scab but they seemed to be larger, better colored and entirely free 

 from any injury due to the spraying material. While some of the 

 specimens upon which P>ordeaux mixture had been used were quite 

 free from injury, many of the varieties were badly russetted. 



The Farm Crops Department had an exhibit of grains which attracted 

 considerable attention. It contained a large number of varieties of 

 wheat, both straw and grain being shown and specimens illustrating 

 the effect of selection with timothv and alfalfa. 



